Creative with Kids

If you are anything like me, you can start to go a little crazy at home. Here is a quick list of some creative ways to spend time at home with your kid(s).

1. Visit the zoo.
2. Find out about your area's community center and/or park activities.
3. Wash the dog. (A neighbor's dog if you don't have one!)
4. Have a family slumber party.
5. Build a fort.
6. Get out the the family photo album.
7. Research your family history.
8. Visit the Genealogical library.
9. Play stickball.
10. Play hopscotch.
11. Play games.
12. Clean the house together (Have a pick-up party.)
13. Make up a play. Take it to a nursing home.
14. Fly kites.
15. Go on a family trip/historical excursion.
16. Did it snow?  Go sledding and make a snowman.
17. Make a collage out of pictures from old magazines.
18. Set up a lemonade stand on a warm day.
19. Shoot hoops together. Play H.O.R.S.E.
20. Draw pictures of members of your family.
21. Make a family calendar.
22. Tell stories around a campfire. (Or at the barbecue?)
23. Organize a game of capture the flag.
24. Make miniature boats and float them in some water.
25. Write letters to grandparents or a missionary.
26. Play freeze-tag.
27. Tell scary stories (With lights out.)
28. Play broom ball.
29. Go for a hike.
30. Go for a bike ride together.
31. Go get ice cream and walk around the temple grounds.
32. Learn to play the guitar together.
33. Listen to classical music, lights off, lying on the floor, and take turns saying what it sounds like.
34. Attend community concerts or listen to a local band.
35. Organize a community clean-up.
36. Visit the library.
37. Go ice skating or roller skating.
38. Paint a picture, a mural or a room.
39. Learn how to use a compass.
40. Organize 72 hour kits.
41. Plant a tree or some flowers.
42. Learn the metric system.
43. Learn sign language.
44. Learn the Morse code.
45. Go swimming.
46. Go bird watching.
47. Walk the dog. (A neighbor's dog if you don't have one!)
48. Visit the countryside.
49. Visit the City. (Maybe on a bus?)
50. Pick berries/fruit together
51. Bake cookies or bread.
52. Make homemade jam.
53. Take treats to neighbors or friends.
54. Plant a garden.
55. Join a family choir.
56. Start a family journal.
57. Go to a museum.
58. Take a nature hike trail.
59. Play cards.
60. Start a family exercise group.
61. Sing (in the car).
62. Visit a local bookstore or library.
63. Make crafts together. Give them away.
64. Make Christmas ornaments together.
65. Write a story together.
66. Put a sleeping bag out in the back yard and watch the night sky through binoculars.
67. Go fishing.
68. Play touch football.

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